blameworthiness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blameworthiness
Noun
  • But unlike the billions of other web-using inhabitants of planet Earth, the 72-year-old Canter feels an ever-so-slight twinge of culpability for all that digital junk that rockets across the internet each day.
    Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Naming an interstate war based on the state in which the war is fought – while omitting the name of outside instigators – implies the culpability of that state.
    Esther Brito Ruiz, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Where other projects have found success discussing the same notions bleakly, Etzler trusts his sardonic approach will tempt audiences to let their guards down and allow the subject matter to resonate, perhaps looking inward at their own complicity in the process.
    Holly Jones, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Slowly, as the curtain lifts on the institution’s insane practices and the complicity of the town at large, the narrative reaches a wild conclusion that defies expectation.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Such comparisons are too easily drawn, with too much self-righteousness, as though the guilt for what was done to the Jews could be lightened just a little by likening them to their own murderers.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Not the president making those decisions, who has neither the education nor the experience to judge whether there are facts sufficient to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt under a statute in this country.
    ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Xcel and plaintiffs’ attorneys announced the settlement Wednesday, just one day before the start of jury selection in a two-month civil trial to determine blame for the 2021 wildfire that killed two people and destroyed more than 1,000 homes in Boulder County.
    Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Somehow, though, in the war of words, college students tend to get the blame.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In a wide-ranging interview in Doha, two weeks after surviving an Israeli air-strike on a Hamas compound in the Qatari capital, Ghazi Hamad highlighted growing international condemnation of Israel’s offensive in Gaza and the spate of countries who have recognized Palestinian statehood.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The announcement and the administration's claims have drawn widespread condemnation from medical experts and researchers.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Blameworthiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blameworthiness. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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